The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-11-17
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.

Mississippi has nine dailies.
Vicksburg has hot soda water.
Tupelo is on the up hill grade.
Columbus new Jail cost $12,S5O.
Aberdeen wants a broom factory.
\ Columbus wants a prohibition edi-
Cotton has gone up about $500 per
bale.
Grenada has Literary Universal
Club.
Bolton had a stock show Novem-
Der 6.
Yazoo merchants know how to adj
vertise.
Michiganders are settling in Perry
county.
Lincoln county is shipping much
lumber.
A political shooting occurred at Roll
ing Fork.
In good health JEFF Davis is back at
Beauvoir.
The two Sans will visit Natchez in
the Spring.
Mississippi is marching on in new
enterprises.
Macon's Creamery is shipping butter
to Troy, N. Y.
Gov. Lowry is preparing documents
for the next Legislature.
Mr.. Pharaoh Carter, aged 80 years,
died in Summit recently.
Messrs. Brumfeld, of Yazoo, raised
100 bushels corn to the acre.
One firm at Greenville received in
one day 1890 bales of cotton.
Tupelo's streets are made conspicu-
GUS by a travelling evangelist.
Mississippi editors can't beat North
ern ones in using vile epithets.
Mr.. n. Bazzinski, Hebrew, is now
Chancery Clerk OfWarren county.
The State Ledger will issue daily
during the sitting of the Legislature.
An agricultural experimental
station will be established i'll Missis-
sippi.
Coffeeville laments the death of
young Lucien Ross, son of Senator
Ross.
Reuben WellsfOrd, for several years
Assessor of Lowndes county, died last
week.
Mai. T. B. Dalton, Superintendent
of Education of Clay county, died re-
Gently.
The l. c. r. r. paid Mrs. Ruffin,
of Oxford, $40, 900 for the death of her
husband.
Two Cornell University(N. y pro-
fessOrs have purchased land in Madi-
son county.
Mr.. Draughdrill, living near Enter
prise, lost his barn and hay press by
fire last week.
Lawrence county won the prize at
the Summit Fair for the best home
raised stallion.
A man and woman in Yazoo county
picked respectively 600 and COL pounds
of cotton i'll day.
Jackson, Canton, Aberdeen, Macon,
Summit, WOOdville and Sardis have
held fairs this season.
A twelve year old boy at GuntOwn
had his arm amputated on account OF
injuries received in gin.
Rev. DR.. j. r. Graves, the noted
Baptist divine of Memphis, is preach
ing in East Mississippi this week.
George Lipscombe, of the State Y.
NJ. c. A., has gone to Springfield,
Mass, for years theological study.
Mrs. Elizabeth Barman, for half
century, resident of Vicksburg, de-
parted for the home beyond recently.
An immigration association at
Sumpterfeld, Fla, has Maj. r. Wal
pole, formerly of this State, as Presi-
dent.
Col. P. X. Mayors has bought out
the Moss Point Advertiser, which he
will issue from the new town of Gulf
Port.
A collection at the NJ. E. church at
Jackson amounted to $3.50, on the Oc-
casion of Bishop Galloway's preaching
there.
J. NJ. Musgrove was shot and kill
ed by w. COwley in a whisky row at
Laurel last Saturday. COwley was
badly cut.
Gen. Chalmers tried his hand in the
election of Attorney in the Sardis dis
trict, making an effort to defeat the
Democratic nominee.
w. w. Cook ('Uncle Billy") for
several years Sheriff of Copiah county,
died last week in his 10th year, mourn
ed by a host of friends.
At Lexington w. L. KERN and W.
j. Grace, political opponents, exchang-
ed shots at barbecue, three men be-
ing slightly injured thereby.
Howard Gwin was run over and
killed by train in the l.. N. o. & L.
yard at Vicksburg, George TOrtner, at
the same time, having his shoulder
blade broken.
Mrs. Susan Dabney Smedes, late of
has writted an acceptable
book on the life of her father, Thomas
Dabney, entitled, Memorials OF a
Southern planter"